On a flight home from a recent business trip, I was reading the latest Rolling Stone interview with Bob Dylan, and a colleague asked me: What is it about Bob Dylan that you like so much? My reply reminds me of the line in Almost Famous when William (Patrick Fugit) asks Russell (Billy Crudup) what he loves about music, and Russell answers, "To begin with, everything."
Bob is talented, driven, insanely intelligent, honest, weird, evasive... But, basically, his music is just damn good. That's all. Just damn good. Doesn't hurt that he's a Buddy Holly fan either, or that he's a bit obessed, it seems, with Neil Young. Curious? Just read the recent Rolling Stone interview. http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan Or, go see him and Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp on the ballpark tour this summer.
Confessions of a culture vulture
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